SAP FANS

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*What is SAP?

Systeme, Anwendungen, Produkte in der Datenverarbeitung (german)
Systems, Applications & Products in Data Processing (in English)

What is SAPFANS.COM ?

SAPFANS.COM is the place on the internet where you can
exchange ideas with other SAP fans working with products R/3 and R/2
meet other SAP fans around the world
post your SAP content and get exposure to SAP market and other SAP fans in the world
find tips & tricks in SAP software
have a chat on hot topics
find jobs in SAP
read daily news on SAP related products
find books on SAP products and more over it is free. No membership or registration is required to join the club. Only requirement is: You have to be a SAP Fan.

Facts about SAP

.Founded by five former IBM employees in 1972 (History) and headquartered in Walldorf, Germany.
.Leading global provider of client/server business software solutions.
.Number one vendor of standard business application software, with a worldwide market share of 31%.
.Fourth-largest independent software supplier in the world.
.Available in 14 languages.
.34% of SAP's customers worldwide are under $200 million.
.10 out of the top 10 US companies with the highest market value use SAP software.
.8 of the top 10 largest US corporations use SAP software.
.8 of the top 10 highest profit US companies use SAP software.
.More than 7500 customers in over 90 countries have chosen SAP.
.Reported revenues of DM 6 billion in the most recent fiscal year, a 62-percent increase over 1996 revenues.
.SAP is not any longer a one-product-company. Eight Reasons to Use SAP R/3
Global Basis
.Faster Speed
.Flexibility for Changes (Business & IT)
.Agility
.Extended Supply Chain Management
.Reach New Opportunity
.Knowledge Sharing
.Creativity Focus
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SAP Basis, ABAP Programming and Other IMG Stuff

The SAP R/3 online contents for this site will be on ABAP, BAPI, ALV programming, SAPscripts, SmartForms, CATT, LSMW, DMS and other IMG stuff like MM, LE, SD, PP, APO, WF, HU, PM, PS, QM, HR, FI, CO, BW and BC.
For SAP (ABAP, Basis Administration, Application) discussion, you can make used of the SAP and ABAP forum. It also serve as a place where SAP functional tips and sample ABAP programs are posted.
If you are searching for a SAP Jobs or just want to have a feel of the SAP Jobs market, you can make used of the SAP Jobs Opportunity Forum.
The New SAP Tips online will be shown on the right column under the Title New SAP Tips Just Arrived. The Archive Tips can still be found in their individual modules.
If you operate an internet SAP related website and are looking for contents contributions, then have a look at our Free contents page : Free SAP Contents for your Web Site.

SAP Jobs Opportunity for Abapers, Basis, Functional Professional

The place for SAP consultant to find SAP Jobs openings.
SAP Jobs recruiter, post your job vacancies and offer here or search for your potential SAP candidate.
SAP Jobs seeker, post your resumes and let the jobs offer come to you via your mail box or search for your desired SAP vacancy .
For those who want to evaluate the SAP Jobs market, this is the best SAP Jobs forums because new jobs are posted daily from different countries around the world.
For SAP Fresher, the most important things to do is to study the specific SAP Jobs requirment and tried to get the required SAP training. Occasionally, you will also get to see some SAP resumes from Job seeker which will provide you with the guideline on how your resume should be written.
SAP Jobs Recruiter, as this is a global database, it would help greatly if you could state :-
the countries,
place of work,
remuneration currency,
SAP experience, skills required,
whether you are looking for locals or international SAP candidate. SAP Career FAQ

SAP Career - Pointers To Enter SAP Market

Please don't be despair if you can't find any SAP career positions now. The market will pick up and things will get better. Always believe nothing is impossible if you just stick to your belief.
You have already made the correct move to pick up or know more about SAP ERP (Enterprise Resource Planning).
Followings a few invaluable pointers for those who are eager to get into the SAP Employment Market. (No right or not though)
Pointers to enter SAP Market for Fresher: 1. Select a niche area preferably last addition from SAP Net Weaver Framework (Enterprise Portal, Master Data Management) 2. Get trained in more area (If you can afford, get certified not only in one area but a few areas. E.g. SD/MM/PP, FI/CO. This will value add to your resume 3. Do Post-graduate course from University that are affilate partners of SAP. 4. Stick to your belief and willing to accept SAP entry level job. (Paycheck might be lower than your current job, but its worth it). 5. Read more about SAP from whatever sources (SAP Books, Training CBT, Forums etc). E.g People in the yahoo groups are very helpful. 6. SAP is selling Demo CD for Desktop installation. That might be a way to get yourself train on CRM or other SAP modules by yourself.
We were all once fresher and were rather skeptical like all of you in the beginning. However, finally we found ourself a challenging job in SAP. Besides, when we just started, we are earning 20% less than our pervious job but we are confident that in the future, the payback will be much more. Good Luck in your quest for a career in SAP.